Friday, July 01, 2016

I've been thinking about this for a very long time. What would be an ideal agile team size -- what would be a core team size to be more precise. I've been told in the past that it's 5, but I think it's 4 and here is how I think the team should be organized

Role

Role

Role

Role

Developer1

Developer2

Reviewer/Test1

Reviewer/Test2

Here Reviewer/Tester and Developers should exchange roles if required and be flexible to work both ways for maximum efficiency. Note the role of Reviewer/Tester could be easily done by another Developer.

Here is how I would schedule their interactions

Day

Room1

Room2

1

Developer1 and Reviewer/Test1

Developer2 and Reviewer/Test2

2

Developer2, Developer1 and Reviewer/Test1

Reviewer/Test2

3

Developer2, Developer1 and Reviewer/Test2

Reviewer/Test1

4

Reviewer/Test2, Developer1 and Reviewer/Test1

Developer2

5

Reviewer/Test2, Developer1 and Reviewer/Test2

Developer1

6

Developer2, Developer1 Reviewer/Test2 and Reviewer/Test1

Teams will think I am crazy for suggesting working 6 days a week, this problem can be resolved by splitting day 6 into some hours each day. For example 1.5 hours a day could be kept aside each day for the developers/reviewer-tester to interact and day 6 could be eliminated all together

In my scheme, each person gets a day/some time to themselves each week. All of them collaborate together and work together frequently. In this scheme indepedence is as important as the inter-dependance between each member